Table 1.
Characteristics of total sample and by parent and child weight status dyad.
| N=681 | Overweight Parent & Child N=126 |
Healthy Weight Parent/Overweight Child N=50 |
Overweight Parent/Healthy Weight Child N=267 |
Healthy Weight Parent & Child N=238 |
Chi-square (p-value) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolescent characteristics | |||||||
| Age, mean(SD) | 16.4 (1.7) | ||||||
| Male, % | 48.8 | 57.1 | 44.0 | 48.7 | 45.4 | 5.1 (0.17) | |
| Receive free or reduced cost lunch, % | 11.2 | 19.8 | 14.0 | 10.5 | 6.7 | 14.8 (0.002) | |
| Overweight/Obese, % | 25.9 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Parent/guardian characteristics | |||||||
| College education, % | 65.3 | 48.8 | 77.6 | 68.5 | 68.9 | 24.8 (<0.001) | |
| White race, % | 92.4 | 80.2 | 96.0 | 92.5 | 97.9 | 37.9 (<0.001) | |
| Work status, % | |||||||
| Full Time | 61.97 | 71.4 | 64.0 | 63.7 | 54.6 | 14.9 (0.02) | |
| Part Time | 25.26 | 15.1 | 28.0 | 23.6 | 31.9 | ||
| Not Working | 12.78 | 13.5 | 8.0 | 12.7 | 13.5 | ||
| Dual parent HH, % | 80.03 | 73.0 | 78.0 | 78.7 | 85.7 | 9.1 (0.03) | |
| Overweight/Obese, % | 57.7 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Time demands and family rules Scales* | |||||||
| Time Demands, mean (SD) | 20.5 (3.8) | 21.5 (4.0)a | 20.7(3.5)ab | 20.5 (4.0)b | 20.1 (3.5)b | ||
| Lack of Rules, mean (SD) | 9.7 (2.1) | 10.0 (2.1)a | 9.7 (1.8)ab | 9.9 (2.1)a | 9.5 (2.0)b | ||
| Difficulty with Rule Enforcement, mean (SD) | 12.6 (2.8) | 13.3 (3.0)a | 12.6(2.5)ab | 12.6 (3.0)b | 12.3 (2.5)b | ||
*
columns with same letters in superscript are not significantly different